For the Tuesday May 2 Digital Government Lecture, Gary Robinson, Director of the Washington State Department of Information Services (DIS), has organized a panel discussion on issues encountered on the Government Management Accountability and Performance “GMAP” Project. GMAP is a management tool to review and improve the performance of state agencies.

Tracy Guerin, Deputy Director of DIS, and Larisa Benson who is GMAP Project Director of Government Management Accountability and Performance.

Below are web sites that you should peruse prior to seminar.

• Washington State Project Management Framework contains guidelines and best practices for state information technology project managers.
• recent news article on OMNI highlights some of the difficulties for large scale projects.
• Project evaluation criteria and success factors
• reports on projects includes enterprise archtecture, GIS, and communications interoperability. The reports show the application of the evaluation criteria.
• Overview of GMAP.
• official reports on GMAP "Accountability Process", "What we learned from GMAP" and March 14, 2006, Government Efficiency Report(optional).